Human Rights Watch has accused US-backed Pakistani troops of carrying out more than 200 extrajudicial killings in the past eight months of suspected Taliban sympathizers. Most of the killings have occurred in the Swat Valley. Tom Malinowski of Human Rights Watch said, “People are taken away, and sometimes they turn up a few days or weeks later having been tortured. Sometimes they disappear. Sometimes their body is dumped with a bullet in the head.” The US has given more than $15 billion in aid to Pakistan since the September 11 attacks.